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proudly over the new york harbor. by the way, it is 11 on the east coast on this friday, we made it, december 2, i'm ashley webster in today for stuart varney. let's get straight to the markets for you, down but trying to claw the way back. dow off 200 points was down more than 400 at one point. s&p down 1% and nasdaq down a little more than 1%. really on the back of a strong jobs report, which, you know, may give the fed more impetus to keep states rates higher than the markets would like. on the big tech, meta platforms are up 12% and rest are down, microsoft, alphabet, apple and amazon down more than 1%. take a look at 10-year treasury yield, it spiked when we first got that jobs report then dropped and is now somewhere in between up slightly at 3.6%. all right. now this, the cases of covid in los angeles are surging. 1500 in fact new cases a day.

health officials now strongly recommending, wait for it, a return to indoor mask policies. what? steve hilton, perfect person to talk about this with. steve -- good morning, by the way, are people listening to mask mandates again? no, they didn't the first time quite rightly because we know now and knew from the beginning, ashley, this is not being wise that cloth masks make practically no difference in the transmission of the virus and it's tiny, tiny aerosols and not droplets. can you believe, we're back here again, yet again? you have these lunatics, these bureaucrats, totally unaccountable, the half a million dollar a year woman who runs public health in los angeles, not a medical doctor parading these totally bogus metrics; right, about cases and whatever. how does she know what the cases are? people are testing on their own

at home privately and it's not reported. it's complete bs. the whole thing is total bsi and i hope nobody -- bs, and i hope nobody pays any attention to it at all. ashley: wow, steve, you are on fire today. it's actually rubbish. that's what it is. how about this issue, this is a good one, the governor of california, gavin newsom, formed the country's largest effort to address reparations for slavery. get this, his task force wants to hand out $230,000 checks to all dis-den dents of clave -- descendents of slaves in his state. that would be $560 billion. steve, who will pay for that? >> well, that's exactly right. look, money we don't have. we're just about to head into a deficit situation in california because we had -- by the way, about a year ago he was parading this massive sush plus handing -- surplus handing out checks -- sorry, bribes before

the election. now the fiscal authorities are warning we're about to head into a deficit and programs will have to be cut. however, i will say this, this is the wrong answer but to a serious question, there is a serious issue of the racial wealth gap. not so much the income gap, the wealth gap because a lot of that is product of past discrimination, whether that's in terms of housing or access to higher education or the capital to start a business. there's an issue there to address, but i think we do it through those sorts of things, things that can help people get housing and own a home. not just housing, own their own home, it's an asset and the assets to start a business and build up their wealth. this will not help that at all. ashley: right. and finally what a shocker this one is, steve. san francisco and la top the list of cities home buyers want to leave. guess what, followed bit east coast hubs including new york city, dc, and boston. there has to be a common theme

there. why do people want to leave the big city, steve? >> because the far left democrats who are in charge of these places have utterly destroyed the quality of life. just one story that tells you everything that's going on. this week a story of a family, a 10 month old boy nearly died by ingesting fentanyl he picked up in the playground of a park in san francisco. a 10-month old boy. if you look at some of the responses from the left on that, they're blaming the parents. so this is the situation we're now in where parents are blamed for not anticipating that there's fentanyl lying around in playgrounds in san francisco. it is completely demented. ashley: well, i know you've been in california, steve, but i don't think you're going to be leaving any time soon, are you, because you're fighting the good fight. >> i'm not leaving.

we have to turn this around. exactly. ashley: i love it. steve hilton. he's a brave man, he's the voice of reason in all the insanity on the west coast. steve, great to talk to you. good to see you. of course, we'll be watching you on the next revolution, it's a great show by the way, sunday, 9:00 p.m. eastern time and it's all only on fox. steve hilton. great stuff. let's check the markets for you. we are, i think, trying slowly, ever so slowly, still down 193 points on the dow, trying to come back a little bit. the nasdaq, high growth stocks, big tech stocks getting hit down more than 1% on the nasdaq and s&p down eight tenths of a percent and bring in jonathan ho nig. jonathan, 283,000 jobs added last month and better than expected and markets went into a panic. oh, no, this is not what the fed wants to hear. they're selling off and is that the reason, is that a knee-jerk reaction to a perhaps better

jobs report than expected in >> the old saying going, ashley, expected with the jobs number, one swallow does not make a summer. look at long term, especially with jobs. in the 1970s, the unemployment rate went from 6% to 3% and back to 6% and then to 9% then back to 6% just in a matter of ten years. i do think there's money to be made here. stocks are up more than 20% off the bottom. in fact, interest rates are down and there's money to be made here but what you're beginning to see is the pattern of basically bad news for wall street and good news for main street and v vice versa and more companies firing people the higher their stocks are going. ashley: i was reading your notes, jonathan, and the first thing you said was go green. your interested in green stocks. what specifically, explain yourself? >> i really think, ashley, we're in a period like the early 2000s where the major indexes tread water but there's money to be

made in the smaller sectors and value stocks and international stocks, we've talked about small cap stocks and i'm looking at something esoteric like carbon credits and two big etfs we own at capitalistpig.com and they're carbon credits and tax on carbon if what's happening in europe is any inday indication of -- indication of what will happen in the u.s., it's more and more higher prices of carbon and i'm investing in these for hi hedge and look off the radar screen despite a big rally in names like facebook and apple, they'll not be the big bull market for the next couple of years. ashley: i love when we have you on the show, jonathan, because you always go for something a little different and make us think about something different and that's one of them, carbon credit. >> you've got to be a contrary. ashley: i love it. do we see a downturn, do we see

a recession? >> i think we do. as we said, ashley, market leads the economy and this inflation really is a killer, even if it ebbs a little bit. we're talking 4 or 5 or 6% of people's wealth and savings evaporated year after year and makes wealth accumulation and investment more difficult and unless the inflation is tackled in washington, it's never going to be eliminated from wall street. ashley: that's exactly right. good stuff as always. jonathan, happy friday and thanks for joining us. >> thanks, ashley. ashley: thank you, you too. come in here, lauren. you've been looking at markets and some of the movers. start with coin base. lauren: we haven't done many winners and coin base is a winner, up 1.5%. piper sandler says they're going to capitalize on the ftx bankruptcy and sees the share price more than doubling. it's down nearly 82% this year and i guess in a way going back to where it was a year ago. z scaler, cloud security company, another one that's down.

here's the deal, companies are starting to pull back and zscaler is saying they see larger deals getting more scrutiny and taking longer to close. that hurt them in the quarter. ford, november sales fell 7.8% from last year. the stock is down 1.6%. the uber popular f series, its profit engine sales fell almost 9% and truck and suv sales. it's not all bad news, ev sales are doubling and now ford is second to tesla in electric vehicles. ashley: interest. another one for you. the ceo of uber, not going to attempt the name says the company is not considering job cuts, but they laid off over 6,000 employees in 2020 so what's different now? lauren: they say people are going places and uber sees zero signs of weakness. that's bullish when you have lyft struggling and the tech

companies because uber is a tech company. all freezing or cutting jobs. uber is saying no signs of weakness and their pool is workers is a-okay. ashley: okay. thank you very much. well done on that ceo's name. i'm just not going to go there. lauren, thank you. now this -- it's one of those names. say it loud and fast. always the best advice. apple ceo tim cook goes silent when he's asked about china. watch this. >> do you have any reaction to the factory workers beaten and detained for co covid protests d lockdowns? ashley: yep, cricket, cricket. ignorerred those questions over and over and hillary didn't give up. we'll get into that story but there were 73,000 known got aways at the border in november and that's about 2400 people every day who are now unaccounted for. arizona congressman andy biggs

will be here to react. meantime, rail strike averted and the president said the senate vote just spared the country from a christmas catastrophe but this really isn't a win for the white house. we'll explain next. ♪

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concerns and that is paid sick days. chad pilgrim is on capitol hill following it all so what happens now, chad? >> ashley, congress may given president biden a win averting the rail strike just before the holidays, but the man who brags that he is the most prounion president in history cave when had it came to seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers. >> trying to get paid leave not just for rail workers but for everybody. that other team they call the republicans, they voted against it and said we couldn't do it. we're one of the few nations in the world that don't have paid leave for our workers. >> the left and the right is blasting the president, gop florida senator marco rubio raid the president's concession alienated rail workers and republicans chide at the president for instructing his team to tell congress to intervene or face economic calamity. >> it's funny that he says he's been trying to negotiate to get

more paid leave for the rail workers but meanwhile had no problem bypassing the legislative process to sign a $500 billion almost $1 trillion in bailout that's in the process of how we do article one, which is legislative rights for power of the purse. >> others believe that the dispute over paid leave shed light on disparities inside the rail industry. >> maybe there's a new dawn for these type of support policies to help workers thrive in the workplace to function well and effectively, to be able to meet the needs of their families, especially when they're sick or loved ones are sick. >> after the vote to avoid the strike, bernie sanders said the struggle to help the rail workers is not over. ashley. ashley: all right, chad, thank you very much. now this, house minority leader kevin mccarthy suggests that republicans risk losing their

power if they don't make him house speaker. take a listen. >> we need to do this for the american people. we either are successful together or we will fail individualically we will not be given the -- individually and we will not be given the possibility or opportunity to be in the majority again. the american public voted and a lot of american government will be held accountable come januar. ashley: interesting, congressman andy biggs joins me now. congressman, you're not a supporter of mr. mccarthy so to his point, does that mean you're putting the party's power at risk? >> no, i don't think so. i think that's an absurd argument. we'll have the majority and what his argument presumes is that he's the only one that can be the speaker. i just don't think that's the case. this is a body, i think the republican party in congress is filled with people who are capable to lead it and fight the fight that has to be fought to advance the policies that have to be advanced.

i don't -- i think it's an absurd claim to say basically if you don't elect me, we're all doomed and that's really what the presumption in that argument comes out to be. ashley: i want to get to another topic now if we can, there were record breaking 73,000 known get aways at the southern border last month. that works out by the way to about 2 2400 people slipping pat border abouts every day. you live in a border state. what, if anything, can be done to stop the got aways? >> it's the policy of the administration. we need a strong leader on the republican side to implement new policies. you need to finish the fence. you can't get rid of title 42 and you have to detain until people's immigration status is determined. you actually -- i was talking to believe it or not democrats yesterday who said, andy, this is not going to stop until we start deporting people. they're 100% correct.

you know, ashley, i'll just tell you right now in the city of yuma for instance, everything is so overcrowded, they can't process fast enough, the ngo can't process fast enough. they're going to start we leasing these individuals without adequate vetting right into the community and that's going to happen all along the boarders because these numbers continue to rise. it's very dangerous for this country. ashley: it is, it's a sleet disaster is what it is. i'm going to move on. this issue, you along with senator mike lee just introduce add new bill that would prohibit covid related vaccines to be added to immunization schedules for children. how much support do you have for the bill? # >> there's a tremendous amout of support on our side and a few willing to cross over but the issue is, ashley, is what would happen in the senate because the senate is controlled by the democrats yet to this day and will be in january, but this has

to happen because the data shows that this covid has very little impact for transmission or spread on children and you're going to add this new experimental vaccine to the schedule. that's a dangerous nonscientific approach. ashley: yeah, we know that now and, you know, two years on from when this whole thing began, why is it even being discussed? >> it's just a cdc thing. i think it goes back to control and they're the ones that have laid it out there they want to add to the schedule and we're saying wait a second, you need to provide data to show efficacy and risk and also harm that's been done before you can add it to the list. parents should know that and, you know, when it gets on the cdc list, it'll become mand mandatory. ashley: that's exactly right. we're out of time but great to talk to you.

kongman andy biggs from arizona -- congressman andy biggs from arizona, thank you. staying on covid, dr. fauci speaking out about the protests in china saying the latest round of lockdowns are draconian and china should focus on vaccinating and boosting the elderly but the chinese vaccines are not as effective at the mrna shots we have here in the united states. all right, now this. apple ceo tim cook was questioned by our own hillary vaughn about the lockdown protests in china. at least she tried to ask. come in, lauren, what happened? lauren: he told her nothing and honestly, ashley, this silence speaks volumes. >> hi, mr. cook, do you support the chinese's people's right to protest? do you have any reaction to the factory workers that were beaten and detained for protesting the covid lockdowns?

do you regret restricting air drop lockdowns for chinese government? think it's problematic to do business with the communist chinese party when they suppress human rights? lauren: that's really awkward. just to be able to walk straight like that. look, hillary wasn't asking got ya questions. it didn't seem like she was trying to get a great sound byte or trap him. she was asking questions where answers could have made him popular. even among the lawmakers he was set to meet with right then and there when they opened the door for him to walk in with his team. do you support essentially your workers in china right now? the answer is yes. ashley: exactly right. lauren: he didn't have to say much but something. it's a pretty honest and straightforward questions. ashley: yeah, fascinating. i love the way hillary didn't give up and kept going. lauren, thank you very much.

let's check the markets. the dow still off about 178 points, down about half a percent. we were down more than 1% earlier in the session, the nasdaq also down 1% and the s&p down 31 points, at 4,045. now this, so much for reducing carbon footprint. meghameghan markle spotted takia private jet for three hours out of town. 70% of people had a great deal of trust and confidence in the military but today the number just 48%. military vet pete hegseth will take that on next. ♪

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there, sixth avenue, 48th street. take a look at these markets, down across the board where we've been since the opening bell but stabilizing a little bit. the dow, s&p and nasdaq down a half to eighth tenths of a percent. susan li is back and watching some of the movers. susan, take a look at liberty media. susan: yeah, john malone owned liberty media and formula 1 unit says the china race in shanghai has been canceled next year again, fourth year in a row because of ongoing covid restrictions and sparked the most widespread nationwide protest in china this week. other asian countries resumed raising this year inshrewding singapore, i attended that and it was fantastic. singapore is looking for other races to replace that and first vegas race and liberty media bought formula 1 for $46 billion in 2016 and it's worth double that and it's a pretty smart

investment and china internet stocks ripping today after big gains this weekend. it's a pretty counter intuitive to the most widespread protests in 30 years but earnings for the internet stocks go up when citizens are stuck at home shopping online and china stocks had best november in 18 years last month so if you're looking for a bull market, that's one to look at. finally chinese electric car companies rallying again and earnings called a bottom for falling sells up 20% and tesla delivering first semi truck to pepsi last night and $180,000 plus for each semi and super charging capability they say and tesla says they'll make 100 of them over the next year. skeptics of course, lots of them on the markets, say you need more than 500 miles of a charge to haul 80,000 tons of freight across the country. if anybody can do it and it's

always an event when elon musk unveils and delivers something from tesla. ashley: that's very true. susan, thank you very much. now this, a new poll reveals only 48% of americans say they actually trust our military. pete hegseth is with us. pete, look, all though this confidence number is slightly higher than last year's 45%, it's still pretty darn low, why? >> because people aren't wrong. they see what's happening right in front of them. i mean, one glaring example is afghanistan. look at the conduct of our military there of our senior leadership, no one held responsible. you add on top ol it wokeness, call it social justice, call it political correctness, whatever you want, they're seeing the things we're used to only seeing on college campuses moving into the 101ist air barn and 182 airborne and i've always revered the military but if it looks like my local woke university, i have the same regard for it as i do those

institutions and it's a dangerous place to be and the one institution we always held up as the example of maretoxy and now -- meritocracy and now it's a social experiment driven by washington dc with generals willing to do their bidding who lose wars. that's a recipe of loss of confidence so it doesn't surprise me. ashley: and what does that do to the moral among the ranks? >> well, i mean, it's already low. if you talk to guys in right now, in the teams or elsewhere, they're frustrated by everything that i just laid out, they're also looking at earlier -- retiring earlier and many of them have been pushed out, and the military in many ways is a family business, ash, in that you've had my grandfather served, my father served, now i'm serving. i have often felt like i would love to have one of my boys or multiple of them join the military. for the first time i've second guessed that, even myself, saying do i really want them going into a military that's not

willing to viciously fight and win wars the way that it should, and is more focused on equity than it is on lethality. it affects moral when you're not laser focused on what the military should be focused on. ashley: you know, you mention the vaccine mandates. still in place for the military by the way, more than 8,000 members are being discharged since the rule went into place in august of last year. now some gop senators are threatening to block a vote on the defense bill if the vaccine mandate is not removed. they want a vote to end the mandate first. they're not alone. how does this play out? >> well, the easiest and fastest way to play out is for military leaders to show some leadership, but lloyd austin is not a leader. he's not going to stand up to this white house. he's following the prerogatives of political appointees and joe biden. you need a new commander in

chief saying this isn't happening and we're going to re-instate anybody pushed out. absent that, this is the type of thing republicans should they have more or less a 50/50 in the senate should be pushing for and fighting for. if you're a democrat up for reelection say in 2024, do you really want to go to voters and say, no, no, i voted to keep kicking our boys out of the military -- men and women, when long after the emergency, long after -- especially now that we know more about who it affects, transmission, all of that, the emergency's gone, the vaccine mandate should be gone, but it's unfortunately ruined a lot of careers of the most experienced military members. it's terrible. i hope they fight it and they really should. ashley: yeah. is this one of the worst low points you've seen for the military in recent times? >> i think so. certainly the all volunteer military, ash. after vietnam, i mean, look at the way our war fighters were treated and view of the military, it was a deep, dark time. in the all -- you look at the gulf war and then iraq and

afghanistan, there were high moments and they both ended poorly. and now you're looking at a institution we've revered going woke. it's a really bad time. they can't recruit enough people to join for a lot of reasons. so it's not good, but it's a part and parcel with something that started with the obama administration and has now translated into the biden administration and will reverberate. ashley: very disappointing, very sad, and as you mentioned dangerous as well. pete hegseth, great stuff. thank you, pete, for joining us this morning. thank you. of course we'll be watching you on "fox & friends" weekend getting up bright and early starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow only on fox news. all right, now this, remember that man who fell off a cruise ship and waited 20 hours to be rescued? well, he's speaking out, roll tape. >> you know, the fall didn't kill me, sea creatures didn't eat me. i felt like i was meant to get out of there.

ashley: remarkable story. he says he fought off sea creatures and ate bamboo to survive. that's a movie right there. we're on it. meantime, dozens of u.s. air marshals are reportedly planning to refuse the administration's mandatory deployment to the southern border. they say fliers are being put at risk. the report from chicago's o'hare airport is next. ♪

lake we're an american band. ashley: take ago look at airport in dallas, texas. 58 at dfw. president biden ordered a mandatory deployment for u.s. air marshals and they must report to the border and of course leaving flights unguarded. grady trimble is at chicago's o'hare airport this morning and, grady. what fliers saying about that move? >> ash i, s, some of the flierse worried about this and one air marshal said it could make the skies less friendly and less save. it would leave 99 out of 100 flights without a marshal on board. the department of homeland security doesn't reveal the normal numbers for safety reasons. air marshals who don't go to the southern border as they're told could lose their jobs if they

ignore the biden administration's assignment. >> i travel a lot and i think it's important we have the marshals where they need to be to protect the people on the plane. it's stunning to me they'll be reallocated elsewhere. >> haven't had a lot of issues while flying. perhaps if i had more issues flying, i would probably feel less safe but no, not really. >> the council claims marshals are going to the border to do medial tasks and the tsas deny that and republican lawmakers are sounding the alarm. >> they are making sandwiches, they are taking trash out, they are going to do projects that really just isn't necessary for them. i mean, this is shameful. >> for its part, the department of homeland security tells fox business, the suggestion that flights are being left unprotected is completely false.

tsa takes its responsibility to secure the skies for the traveling public very seriously and either way, ashley, bad time for the show down to take place and the holiday travel season is aupon us as you might be able to tell behind me at o'hare. ashley: grady, thank you very much. meghan markle being called a hypocrite for a recent trip to indianapolis. what's the problem, lauren? lauren: the problem is she board add private jet and meghan markle and harry are climate activists and climate change and one of the first issues they chose to highlight stepping back from royal roles saying we're only having two children because we want to limit our carbon footprint but taking a private jet, that's okay. ashley: yeah, that is very, you know, that is a very descriptio- lauren: it's a very hollywood

thing to do. ashley: this story is insane, a man who survived falling overboard from a carnival cruise ship finally speaking out, remarkable story. does he know how it happened? lauren: james michael grimes was on a big family cruise over thanksgiving. he just won the ship's air guitar competition. he was drinking and insists he was not drunk and to answer your question, ashley, he does not remember falling off the ship. he does remember treading water for 20 hours, eating bamboo and surviving jelly fish and sharks before the coast guard rescued him. >> i had taken off my socks and everything and waving them around my head trying to do something where they would see me and when that light finally hit me, somehow i heard, we got him and i seen a guy coming down from the helicopter and it was coming towards me and right then i thought, man, i see the light.

lauren: no words, you know, something was triggered in him, i guess, to survive and rejigger his memory but how do you forget falling off a cruise ship? but then remember everything that happened in the water? ashley: yeah, there's more to the story you feel like but the bottom line is he survived, we don't know how but he did. incredible story. thank you, lauren. take a look at dow 30 stocks to give you a sense of where the markets are. we're down -- we have some green on the dow. boeing, nike and proctor & gamble at the top, intel, salesforce and jp morgan at the bottom but overall this exchange has come back. the dow is almost coming back to level after being down more than 400 points, but coming up next don't go anywhere because friday feedback right around the corner. ♪

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ashley: yes, how appropriate. a little bit of pitbull for you looking at miami, blue skies and 79 degrees right now on december the 2nd. we'll take it. we'll also take this, time for friday feedback, lauren and susan, they're buckled in. let's get started. the first one comes from robert who says, haven't seen stuart for along time. is this now the ashley and company show? no, robert, it is not. feels like stu has been gone a long time; right, guys? it's coming up two weeks now, and we do miss him and he'll be back on monday. lauren: are you sure? ashley: i feel like he's been gone twerk, don't you? lauren: are you sure he'll be back on monday? ashley: he said he was. susan: he's got a long flight.

ashley: it's not the ashley and company show. it's stu and company and he'll be back on monday. this one from jim, does everyone choose their own colors, wardrobe for each show? you look so spiffy. that's nice. lauren, how do you put yourself together each day? lauren: close my eyes and go one, two, three. i think of how cold in the studio and if you've noticed, i've worn a lot of turtle necks and blazers lately. ashley: yeah, susan. how about you? susan: i wear what i can find when i roll out of bed and can get on as fast as possible. ashley: you know what, you guys, you're so honest. i do exactly the same thing. i have idea until i have to be in front of the camera in like five minutes. i'll grab a tie, shirt, jacket and out the door. not a lot of thought goes into

it but apparently we fooled some of our viewers. this one, directed to stu but i'll take it on because it's from mark and he asked, ashley and yourself have mention that had you can tell what part of england someone is from depending on their accent. is that like asking if someone is from california, new york, texas, or is it more nuanced than that? i tell you what, mark, it is more nuanced because almost every city has its own, you know, liverpool with the skouses and different from manchester and m new castle and different accents and about 150 miles between them all and accents in london and the south -- yes, it changes on average about 50 miles, which i find fascinating and have no idea for. susan, you've been there and you too, lauren, it's strange and it changes. susan: can you do an accent for us like the gecko commercials?

ashley: from the gecko, yeah, prop your hs and your ts and right now my mother is watching the show and she's not happy so i better stop that one. next one is jim, byron donald for president or at least governor of florida when desantis runs for president. lauren: he's solid and three boys and active in the community ask calls it the way he sees it. a lot of people find that real and refreshing. ashley: yeah, that's too . i'm going to move onto this and ask susan, comes from piota who asks what new story did you report that stands out for you? i'll throw this to susan li doing a lot of reporting around the world. susan: obviously ftx was a bit shocking at least and

commingling funds and i was at ftx in the bahamas and everybody was there. every crypto company, politicians and celebrities and this is a bit of a shock to everyone. ashley: it is indeed. it's a real shakeup. thank you, guys and to everybody that sent in their feedback. stu is back on monday. we're trying to get that across and also by the way time for the friday trivia question which is: what is america's oldest nfl stadium? lambo in green field, arrow head in kansas city, high mark stadium or soldier field in chicago. the answer right after this. ♪

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ashley: earlier we asked you what is america's oldest nfl stadium. lauren: i'm going with high mark stadium. ashley: very good. susan: lamp-- lamboh. ashley: i was going to go with soldier heels, a stadium built in chicago in 1924. thank you, time is done, cheryl casone in for neil cavuto. all yours. >> i am in for neil cavuto